| January 29, 2005 | -
Sharon Stone raised a million dollars for mosquito nets,
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BBC News
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| January 28, 2005 | - At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Tony Blair and Bill Gates shared the stage with Bono and Bill Clinton and called for more aid to Africa.
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The New York Times
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| January 28, 2005 | - and Ringo Starr was planning to become a cartoon superhero.
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The Guardian
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| January 23, 2005 | -
Johnny Carson died.
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New York 1 News
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| January 4, 2005 | - A U.S. appeals court told Evel Knievel that a website that called him a pimp probably meant it as a compliment and that he could not sue.
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CNN
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| December 29, 2004 | - and Liza Minnelli was hospitalized after falling out of bed.
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New York Times
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| December 8, 2004 | - The Vatican disapproved of a nativity scene in Madame Tussaud's wax museum in London that depicted David and Victoria Beckham, aka Posh Spice, as Joseph and Mary, with George W. Bush, Tony Blair, and the Duke of Edinburgh standing in for the three wise men. "There is a tradition in which each generation tries to reenact the nativity," explained a spokesman for the Archbishop of Canterbury, "but oh deary me."
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BBC
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| October 15, 2004 | -
Bill O'Reilly, the Fox News pundit, was accused of sexually harassing one of his female producers.
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Washington Post
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| October 6, 2004 | -
Rodney Dangerfield died.
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New York Times
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| September 26, 2004 | - An academic conference at Yale University was devoted to Michael Jackson.
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Associated Press
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| September 22, 2004 | - Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, was refused entry to the United States because his name appears on a list of terrorism suspects.
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Reuters
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| August 7, 2004 | -
Rick James died, and
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Voice of America
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| July 29, 2004 | - British troops allegedly forced Iraqi detainees to "dance like Michael Jackson."
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Courier Mail
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| July 20, 2004 | -
Linda Ronstadt was booed off the stage at the Aladdin casino in Las Vegas after she dedicated "Desperado" to Michael Moore; the casino's management removed Ronstadt from the building and refused to let her return to her hotel room.
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BBC
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| June 15, 2004 | - In Los Angeles, an intruder cut off the head of Robert Lees, a 92-year-old former screenwriter (of Abbot and Costello comedies), then ran next door, head in hand, and fatally stabbed a neighbor.
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Reuters
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| June 11, 2004 | -
Brigitte Bardot was convicted of inciting racial hatred.
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Associated Press
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| May 25, 2004 | - A performer with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus fell to her death in front of an audience.
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Associated Press
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| May 21, 2004 | - A New York jeweler was shot in the head as he walked down Sixth Avenue in Manhattan; Candace Bergen was at the scene and said, "This is the first time I've seen brain matter."
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New York Times
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| April 22, 2004 | -
Michael Jackson was indicted for child molestation.
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New York Times
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| March 18, 2004 | - It was reported that New York developer Donald Trump has filed an application to trademark the phrase "You're fired."
| Source:
The Smoking Gun
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| February 11, 2004 | -
Pluto was crushed to death by a parade float near Splash Mountain in Disneyworld.
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News4Jax.com
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| February 10, 2004 | -
Bill O'Reilly of Fox News apologized on national television for his uncritical support of the Bush Administration's claims that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. "I was wrong," he said. "I am not pleased about it at all and I think all Americans should be concerned about this."
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San Diego Union-Tribune
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| February 2, 2004 | - A pierced breast popped out of Janet Jackson's outfit during the Super Bowl halftime show.
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MSNBC
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| January 24, 2004 | -
Captain Kangaroo died.
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Washington Post
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| January 21, 2004 | -
Art Garfunkel got busted with pot.
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Associated Press
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| January 10, 2004 | -
Brigitte Bardot was not amused.
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Associated Press
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| December 25, 2003 | - A South African beauty queen was mauled by a hippo in Botswana.
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Reuters
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| December 19, 2003 | - Nielsen Media Research said that a reality TV show featuring Internet sex star and hotel heiress Paris Hilton received better ratings than the Diane Sawyer interview with President Bush.
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CNN
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| December 12, 2003 | -
Mick Jagger accepted a knighthood; Keith Richards was disgusted and said it was a disgrace: "It's not what the Stones is about, is it?"
| Source:
Associated Press, Reuters
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| December 10, 2003 | -
David Lynch let it be known that he is helping the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi raise $1 billion to build 100 "peace palaces" around the world. "When you do [transcendental meditation]," Lynch declared, "this level of unity can be enlivening the world consciousness and it can go into the atmosphere."
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Guardian
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| December 6, 2003 | - There was rioting in Freetown, Sierra Leone, after two dwarf comedians were substituted for a pair of Nigerian midgets called Aki and Paw Paw, who didn't show up for a performance.
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Associated Press
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| July 12, 2003 | -
Jerry Springer, the talk-show host, filed to run for the Senate in Ohio.
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Reuters
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| May 30, 2003 | -
Bob Hope turned 100.
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New York Times
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| November 13, 2001 | -
Cornel West, the Harvard professor, released a rap album.
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| October 23, 2001 | - A cleaning man at London's Eyestorm Gallery tossed out an installation by “young British artist” Damien Hirst a day after it was assembled because he thought it was just a pile of garbage; the artwork, which was largely composed of cigarette butts, empty beer bottles, candy wrappers, and newspapers thrown about on the floor, was re-created by gallery staff based on photographs of the original.
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